Dinosaur Articles

Dinosaur Colors

when we look at fossilized dinosaur remains we learn a great deal about
the internal structure of dinosaurs, but this remains very rarely include
any sign of their skin. This is because, like most other soft parts of
the body, skin usually breaks down before fossils are formed.

Occasionally
but very rare some traces of skin texture are left. Backspace, and these
show that dinosaurs were often covered with pebble like nodules were sometimes
lizardlike scales. But so far no strong evidence of skin pigmentation
has been found.

we found this, researchers have to rely on modern reptiles to try and
describe what dinosaur skin may have looked like.

the colors and patterns of dinosaurs almost certainly depended on how
they lived. This would have helped the dinosaur by blending in with the
background and make it difficult for a predator to see the dinosaur.

To see whether may have looked like, researchers study modern reptiles.
Dinosaurs may have had many enemies, and one of the best defenses, apart
from running away, was to avoid being seen.

Some of today's reptiles, most famously the chameleons, are able to change
color in order to mimic their background. It is very likely that dinosaurs
were also able to do this, because some of the fossils that have been
found show that their skin may have the same structure.

But chameleons did not switch color only to hide, the color change also
reflects their mood. The Serbs as a way of communication to other animals
around.

Dinosaurs may have displayed different colors with different sexes. Modern
reptiles often look similar, but this is not the same for many birds.
Because dinosaurs are believed to be ancestors of birds, it is possible
that they also displayed color differences between the sexes.